Yawn. Too little too late. Who cares? Novell has slid to the
insignificant.
Check out Novell’s
BrainShare keynote for an amazing demo of the interoperability they have
built between Novell eDirectory and Microsoft Active Directory. You can
fast-forward to the demo if you’re impatient. It’s at 1:15:43 and it is
awesome.
In an
earlier post (Jan. 18/07) I mentioned that BrainShare would be the first
true test of the agreement - Would a Microsoft executive speak? Answer = yes!
Craig Mundie from Microsoft was on-stage with Novell’s CTO for a fireside
chat.
Novell basically demoed the software I mentioned in yesterday’s post
called Novell Domain Services for Windows. Some of the key things shown
during the demo included:
- Creating a user via the ADUC MMC but the user created is actually added to
eDirectory- Modified the added user via iManager and refreshed the MMC to see the change
appear- Set up a two-way trust between two companies (acme.com and widget.com)
- Enabled sharing a folder in one company for a specific user in the other
company- From the other company logged in as that user and accessed that
resourceVery nice indeed. Good work guys!
Source: Jackson’s
Identity Management & Active Directory Reality Tour Travelblog: Now that’s
interop!